Margaret Rosskam Interview

In this oral history, Margaret Rosskam is interviewed by Michael Tietz to discuss how life was under Nazi and Hitler rule for the Jewish as well as her emigration to the United States. Rosskam gives a thorough and accurate description of how her life changed drastically when Hitler came to power. Her school life became more difficult especially since Hitler had altered how many years you could attend school. Schools also started to discriminate against Jews that left them singled out. Margaret does state that she does not remember being discriminated but also may have just forgotten about it. I thought this was very important because it shows how affected she was by the treatment in her town Nuremberg to the point where she wanted to forget …show more content…
It was challenging to find a job mainly since she was a woman and at this time in history in America women were still not seen as equals to men. At the end of the interview, Margaret talks about how she views America in the present day which I thought was interesting. America has changed drastically since she came to this country, so it is interesting to see how much it turned and that she felt the state was morally incorrect. Right now America was discriminating so many different people and was not a united front. Over the years' new thoughts and ideologies arrive in a country that causes it to stray away from the country's liberties. The generation is moving toward selfishness rather than helping others which Margaret feels is very discouraging to what is to come of this country. Her point was interesting because looking at the state of America now we are a very divided nation when it comes to political views especially with laws being passed. We also see more people discriminated more than ever which is moving backward in history rather than